Glamour names nine men among its ‘Women of the Year’ winners

A leading women’s magazine has been criticised for selecting a group of nine men who identify as women as winners of their “Women of the Year” award.

The cover of Glamour UK featured the group of trans activists posing in ‘Protect the Dolls’ crop tops and T-shirts. ‘Doll’ is a contentious slang term referring to certain men who identify as female.

Its accompanying story criticised the April Supreme Court ruling that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, describing it as “exclusionary”.

‘Oversexualised’

The magazine wrote: “As trans rights face increasing threat in the UK, Glamour honours nine of the community’s most ground-breaking voices at this year’s Women of the Year Awards.”

During the awards ceremony, Munroe Bergdorf, one of the group of nine and who has undergone extensive surgery to make himself appear more feminine, said in a speech: “Segregating trans women from cis women, and the trans community from public life, serves to segregate society from humanity.”

Bergdorf was dropped by the NSPCC in 2019 following safeguarding concerns, and criticism he was not a good role model for children. The activist has previously posed for Playboy, frequently attempting to present an oversexualised image of a women. His widely-publicised remarks that “all white people” are racist led to him being dropped from working for L’Oreal and stepping down as a Labour Party LGBT ambassador.

Prioritising men

The choice of winner was widely criticised on social media, with J.K Rowling posting: “I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier. Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.”

Research Institute Family Education Trust wrote: “The fact that these individuals are all wearing t shirts saying ‘protect the dolls’ – a creepy phrase which objectifies women and signifies flouting the law on female-only spaces – shows Glamour magazine’s attitude towards actual women.”

As part of its 2025 ‘Women of the Year Awards’ @GlamourMagUK is celebrating nine trans identifying men. pic.twitter.com/qEnpUrSVQE

— Family Education Trust (@FamEdTrust) October 30, 2025

Paola Diana, chair of the think tank Women’s Policy Centre, commented: “Nine men featured on the cover of a girls’ magazine. Woke insanity at its worst. Young girls are the demographic most vulnerable to social contagion.”

Social contagion

Emerging data supports the theory that ‘social contagion’ was behind the surge of gender-confusion among young people, which is now declining.

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, former academic Dr Colin Wright — who was hounded out of academia by trans activists for suggesting the link in 2020 — argues that growing evidence is making it “harder for anyone to deny”.

He argues: “if transgender identity were an innate trait, like left-handedness, we would expect identification rates to rise at first when it became socially acceptable, then plateau and remain stable at a fixed level.

“If the phenomenon were instead driven by social contagion, we might expect a boom-and-bust pattern: a spike followed by a rapid decline once the social forces driving it weaken.”